. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . inscription saying that it was discovered byColumbus. This shows in what an uncertain way the bap- THE SPANISH DISCOVERERS. 67 tism was given. The earliest manuscript map yet known tobear the name America is in a collection of drawings by-Leonardo da Vinci, now preserved in England, this being prob-ably made in 1513-14. It was published in the London Arck-(Eologia, and a portion of it is here reproduced. The earliestengraved map bearing the name was made at Vienna in globe of Johan
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . inscription saying that it was discovered byColumbus. This shows in what an uncertain way the bap- THE SPANISH DISCOVERERS. 67 tism was given. The earliest manuscript map yet known tobear the name America is in a collection of drawings by-Leonardo da Vinci, now preserved in England, this being prob-ably made in 1513-14. It was published in the London Arck-(Eologia, and a portion of it is here reproduced. The earliestengraved map bearing the name was made at Vienna in globe of Johann Schoner, also made in 1520, and stillpreserved at Nuremberg, calls what is now Brazil, Americasive [or] Brazilia, thus doubtfully recognizing the new name;and it gives what is now known to be the northern half ofthe continent as a separate island under the name of was many years before the whole was correctly figured andcomprehended under one name. Every geographer of thosedays distributed the supposed islands or continents of the NewWorld as if he had thrown them from a dice-box; and the. A CHART OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 68 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. royal personages who received gold and slaves from these newregions generally cared very little to know the particularsabout them. The young, the ardent, and the reckless soughtthem for adventure ; but their vague and barbarous wondersseemed to princes and statesmen very secondary matters com-pared with their own intrigues and treaties and royal mar-riages and endless wars. Vespucci himself may not have
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